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G. F. SARGENT.

REGLINING CHAIR.

No. 535,999. Patented Mar. 19, 1895.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.53 5,999, dated March 19, 1895.

Application filed January 11,1894, genial No. 496,465. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. SARGENT, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reclining-Chairs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the class of reclining or invalid chairs and the object of the invention is in part to provide a simple and convenient means for looking or holding the back of the chair when setat the angle desired.

In the accompanying drawings which serve Figure 1 is a side elevation of the chair with the frame partly broken away to disclose certain features of the mechanism. Figs. and 3 are detail views on a larger scale of the looking or retaining mechanism, Fig. 2 being a section substantially on line y, y, in Fig. 3, and Fig. 3 a section through the bracket and frame online or, w, in Fig.2. Fig. 4 is afront View and Fig. 5 a side view of the leg and foot-rests, detached and on a larger scale than Fig. 1.

1 represents the main frame of the chair; 2, the back; 3, one of the'arms; 4, one of the armsupports; 5, the seat; 6, the leg-rest, and 7 the foot-rest. All of these parts maybe found in existing reclining chairs, and they are not broadly claimed herein.

The back 2, is hinged to the frame at 2, and coupled to the seat at 2". The support 4,

is hinged to the frame at 4 coupled to the:

arm at 4 and to the front of the seat at its lower end. The leg-rest is also attached to the front edge of the seat.

The mechanism for locking the back in the position set will be best understood from an inspection of Figs. 2 and 8. On the inner face of one of the sides of the frame 1, is secured a keeper-bracket, 8, and hinged to the arm-support 4, below the point 4 is a locking-bar, 9, which extends rearwardly through the bracket 8. On its upper edge this bar is provided with teeth, 9 which,by raising the bar, may be madeto engage a detent or tooth, 8, on the bracket. To raise the bar so that its teeth may engage said detent, a cam, 10,

is arranged under the bar and within the bracket, this cam being fixed ona spindle, 11, rotatively mounted at its inner end in the and the frame.

bracket, and at its outer end in the frame, as clearly shown in Fig. 3.

On the outer end of the spindle 11, is a handle, 12, for rotating the spindle to set the cam. In Figs. 2 and 3 thecam isrepresent-ed as in the locking position: that is, it has been so turned as to raise'the bar 9, and set its teeth into engagement with the detent 8, on the bracket.

For convenience in assembling the parts, a hole is bored in the frame of the chair large enough to allow the spindle to pass through with the cam in place, as the cam will, by preference, be cast integrally with the spindle. The hole is seen in Fig. 3. Thebracket 8, will first be. secured to the frame, the spindle passedinto place from the outside, and two retaining plates, 13, secured to the frame behind the cam to prevent the spindle from being withdrawn. These plates 13, (seen in dotted lines only in Fig. 2) each has a halfround notch in its end where it embraces the spindle and thetwo plates thus form a hearing collar for the spindle. between the cam The bracket 8, and plates 13, may be secured to the frame with screws.

The operation is quite simple. By means of the handle 12, the cam may be turned so as to permit the bar 9, to fall and disengage its teeth from the detent 8, when the back 2, can be lowered to the angle desired. The cam will then be turned again to the position seen in Fig. 2, which looks the bar fast and through it the back 2. The bracket may be provided with a stud, 8 to support the bar 8, when it falls.

The above described arrangement of the bar 9, is that seen in Fig. 1, wherein the bar iscoupled to the support 4, below the fulcrum or pivot 4 and passed inside of the sideframe of the chair.

It will be noted that the lateral edgewise play of the bar 9, in adjusting the back, is provided for by allowing room in the bracket.

I have only described one locking device, but there will be, by preference, one at each side of the chair.

The foot-rest 7, is pivotally mounted at its ends in two like arms, 7, which are hinged are provided each'with a shoulder, 7, (see Fig. 4) which are adapted to bear on the face of the leg-rest when the parts arein the position for use, as seen in Figs. 1 and 5. This construction permits the foot-rest to be folded up against the face of the leg-rest when not in use, as seen in Fig. 4c, and the pivoting of the foot-rest in the arms 7, enables the user to set it in any position desired to rest the soles of his feet.

Having thus described my invention, I claim In a reclining chair, the combination with the frame, the hinged back, the arm-support hinged to the frame, and the arm, hinged to and connecting the back and arm-support, of the bar 9, hinged at its front end to the armsupport and having teeth, 9, in its upper edge, of the locking device comprising the bracket 8, secured to the side frame of the chair and provided with a detent 8, a spindle 11, having a hearing at its inner end in the bracket and at its outer end in an aperture in the side-frame, a cam 10, fixed on said spindle and situated within the bracket, retaining plates 13, between the inner face of the side-frame and the cam and secured to the frame, and a handle 12, on the outer end of the cam-spindle, the bearing of the latter in the frame having a diameter nottless than that of the cam, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE F. SARGEN'I.

Witnesses! THOMAS W. FoLsoM, PETER A. Ross. 

